October 04, 2020
Consider these 12 practices from the field; stay abreast of breakthrough technologies
For all the COVID-19 safety guidelines circulating, some hundreds of pages long, basic best practices are straightforward and known by most Americans. Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases since 1984, recently recounted them in an interview with the Journal of the American Medical Association.
• Wear a mask consistently and correctly. “We need, as a nation, to show a degree of consistency of everybody” following public-health recommendations on wearing masks or other face coverings, said Dr. Fauci.
“…One of the purposes of the masks is that if you may be inadvertently walking around not knowing you’re infected—(you need to) protect others from getting infected,” Dr. Fauci said.
The goal should be “universal wearing of masks,” Dr. Fauci said.
• Avoid crowds. A major of vector of the